39 | 2009

Browsing 39 | 2009 by Author "Ricardo, Francisco J."

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  • Article
    Framing Locative Consciousness
    Ricardo, Francisco J. (2009) , S. 1-29
    A special autonomy contains the word “place” in modernist thought and language. It refers to locations with at least a vague name and an implied prominence over non-places. But aside from traditional monuments, little in current notions of place relies on the role of memory in constituting placemaking. Today, therefore, place exists in disconnection with event, an incorrectly separate term with its own semantic lineage. This disjunction is both the opportunity of postmodern architecture and what locative media art, with its union of place and event, seeks to obliterate, as the argument and examples in this essay indicate.
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    On Analytic Method in the Digital Reading
    Ricardo, Francisco J.; Simanowski, Roberto (2009) , S. 1-5
    Presented with the modality of the new work of art, which, being interactive, sculptural, filmic, or ludic, is in nature and structure so different from prior aesthetic production, literary critic and historian of art alike are now confronted with questions as to preferable modes of reading new media art that can do justice to its unique ontologies. In this conversation (from the book Literary Art in Digital Performance: Case Studies and Critical Positions) with Francisco J. Ricardo, Roberto Simanowski lays out a phenomenology that goes beyond the formalism of the work and opens to a critical reading while, in harmony with the thinking of Lyotard, viewing the encounter of the work as possessing greater importance than specific commitments to interpretation, that is, of experiencing “not what happens but that something happens”.